{"id":26449,"date":"2024-10-06T21:39:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T01:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=26449"},"modified":"2024-10-07T02:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T06:22:36","slug":"katy-obrian-and-glen-powell-to-star-in-paramounts-the-running-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=26449","title":{"rendered":"Katy O&#8217;Brian and Glen Powell To Star in Paramount&#8217;s &#8216;The Running Man&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a9Courtesy of Paramount Pictures.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Paramount Pictures has announced that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6884042\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_4_tt_1_nm_7_in_0_q_kathy%2520o%27brien\"> Katy O\u2019Brian<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1412974\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Glen Powell<\/a> will star in its upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Running_Man_(novel)\"><em>The Running Man<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0942367\/\">Edgar Wright<\/a> will be directing, with a script he co-wrote with Michael Bacali. An earlier film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093894\/\">adaptation<\/a> of the story had been released in 1987, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. As reported in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/glen-powell-running-man-remake-release-date-1236168617\/\">Variety<\/a>, <\/em>the upcoming remake of is slated to be released on November 21, 2025, with filming slated to get underway soon In London.<br \/><br \/>Published in 1982 under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman, King\u2019s dystopic novel imagined a totalitarian America in 2025 whose desperate citizens would have to perform in violent game shows to survive, such as \u201cThe Running Man,\u201d which required teams of killers to prey on its contestants in order to win monetary prizes.<br \/><br \/>In the remake, Powell will be cast in the role of a desperate contestant who participates in this deadly game in order to raise money for his daughter, who is ill.<\/p>\r\n<p><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Glen Powell will appear in the upcoming Halloween special for <em><strong>Family Guy<\/strong><\/em>, and has teased he may be seen in a <em><strong>Top Gun: Maverick<\/strong><\/em> sequel. Katy O\u2019Brian had appeared in <em><strong>Black Lightning<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>The Mandalorian<\/strong><\/em> and starred opposite Kristen Stewart in <em><strong>Love Lies Bleeding<\/strong><\/em>, a thriller in which she played a bodybuilder. After making its debut earlier this year at Sundance, <em><strong>Love Lies Bleeding<\/strong><\/em> was released by A24. O\u2019Brien also can be seen in Paramount\u2019s <em><strong>Mission Impossible<\/strong><\/em> movie and in Universal\u2019s Twisters, a disaster flick in which Powell starred.<br \/><br \/>Paramount has also shifted its 2025 release schedule. <em><strong>Vicious<\/strong><\/em>, directed by Bryan Bertino and starring Dakota Fanning, will be released on February 28, and an animated musical about the <em><strong>Smurfs<\/strong><\/em>, starring Rihanna and directed by Chris Miller and Matt Landon, will debut on July 18. And a reboot of <em><strong>Naked Gun<\/strong><\/em> starring Liam Neeson has been moved to August 1.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward\u2019s articles.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9Courtesy of Paramount Pictures.\u00a0 Paramount Pictures has announced that Katy O\u2019Brian and Glen Powell will star in its upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King\u2019s The Running Man. Edgar Wright will be directing, with a script he co-wrote with Michael Bacali. An earlier film adaptation of the story had been released in 1987, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1293,1426,7627,24474,59,24475,1770,24473],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Katy O&#039;Brian and Glenn Powell To Star in &#039;The Running Man&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paramount Pictures has announced that Katy O\u2019Brian and Glen Powell will star in its film adaptation of Stephen King\u2019s The Running Man.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=26449\" \/>\n<meta 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